Every day, people are constantly learning and forming new memories. When you pick up a new hobby, try a recipe a friend recommended or read the latest world news, your brain stores many of these ...

Why some memories persist while others vanish has fascinated scientists for more than a century. Now, new research from the ...

Neuroscientists at MIT have found two neural circuits in the brain that help control time-linked memories and how they are formed. This process in the brain helps regulate if it needs to protect ...

"Our key question was: as an experience unfolds, how does the brain 'know' when one meaningful memory has ended and the next should begin?" said UCLA psychology professor and first author David ...

Life may unfold as a continuous stream, but our memories tell a different story. We do not recall the past as one long, unbroken text. Instead, we remember it as a series of meaningful events, like ...

How the human brain organizes its visual memories through precise neural timing has been discovered. Researchers at the University of Southern California (USC; CA, USA) have made a significant ...

Cosmology has a way of turning everyday certainty inside out, and few ideas do it more brutally than the suggestion that your ...

Editor’s Note: This is part of a series called Inside the Lab, which gives audiences a first-hand look at the research laboratories at the University of Chicago and the scholars who are tackling some ...